Horticulture I

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Horticulture I

• Plant Growth and Development

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• Lori has a native or growing in the wild
  specimen tree that is small and deciduous. It
  has white flowers that are actually four bracts
  with a brown color on the end of each bract. The
  trunk and branches are very crooked. It has some
  red berries with a hard seed inside. What is the
  common name for this tree?
• A. Crape Myrtle
• B. Flowering Crabpapple
• C.Flowering Dogwood
• D. Norfolk Island Pine

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• At the local nursery, Joel found some large
  evergreen shrubs with leaves that were 1 ½ to
  3 long and about half as wide as their length.
  He thought it unusual that some shrubs had green
  leaves, some had gold around their leaf margins
  an some had white around the leaf edges. These
  shrubs are
• A. Eastern Red Bud
• B. Evergreen Euonymus
• C. Lirope
• D. Mondo Grass

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• The beginning of the food chain for all living
  things is the process of photosynthesis which
  takes place in plant
• A. flowers
• B. Leaves
• C. Roots
• D. Stems

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• Neil found a large deciduous tree that has red
  flowers in early spring before the leaves
  appeared. In the summer the leaves are dark
  green with a gray color under the leaves which
  have three to five lobes. The bark is light
  gray. The common name of this tree is
• A. Crape Myrtle
• B. Eastern White Pine
• C. Flowering Dogwood
• D. Red Maple

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• Emily saw a plant hanging from a container in her
  dentists office and it had new plants developing
  at the shoot tips. The 18 long and ¾ wide
  leaves were green with a light greenish-yellow
  line down the middle of the leaves. What is the
  name of this plant?
• A. Shore Juniper
• B. Spider Plant
• C. Swedish Ivy
• D. Weeping Fig

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• At the local restaurant, Crystal saw a hanging
  basket with large green leaf-like growth that
  looked similar to a long vein down the middle.
  It had many little leaf-like structures called
  fronds, but it had no flowers or seeds. This
  plant is a
• A. Boston Fern
• B. Glossy Abelia
• C. Shasta Daisy
• D. Wax Begonia

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• Near the school parking lot, Steven saw some
  small deciduous trees with light tan smooth bark.
  Each tree had different colored flowers all the
  summer and early fall. The colors he saw
  included purple, red, pink, and white. What is
  the common name of these trees?
• A. Ajuga
• B. Crape Myrtle
• C. Flowering Dogwood
• D. Japanese Maple

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• Hugo has a large evergreen shrub with dark green
  five inch long and two inch wide leaves growing
  in the shade. It has many large flowers. On his
  last vacation to the North Carolina mountains, he
  saw some of this type shrub in the edge of the
  forests. Hugos shrub is a
• A. Catawba Rhododendron
• B. Leland Cypress
• C. Mungo Pine
• D. Winged Euonymus

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• If Krista wants to rapidly increase the amount of
  genetically superior plants by placing a growing
  bud tip or shoot of the plant on an agar gel in a
  lab with a sterile environment, which
  biotechnology process would she use?
• Gene splicing
• Layering
• Sexual reproduction
• Tissue culture

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• To get the ideal level of plant production from a
  commercial greenhouse, the amount and quality of
  essential environmental factors such as moisture,
  nutrients, light and temperature must be
• A. Average
• B. Below Average
• C. Optimum
• D. Poor

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• Lauren has a tall tree near her home. The
  deciduous tree has dark green star shaped leaves
  and it has many prickly balls of burrs on the
  ground. What is the common name of this tree?
• A. Eastern Red Bud
• B. Eastern White Pine
• C. River Birch
• D. Sweetgum

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• Morgan has an old tree near her home. The leaves
  are large and shiny. It has 6 to 9 white
  flowers and it is messy under the tree because of
  the cone-line pods and bright red seeds. This
  tree is a
• A. Japanese Privet
• B. Red Maple
• C. Southern Magnolia
• D. Wax Myrtle

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• Elisha saw a large evergreen tree with clusters
  of needle-like leaves about 4 inches long. There
  were five leaves or needles per cluster. He saw
  some curving brown cones under the tree. What is
  the common name for the tree?
• A. Azalea
• B. Eastern Red Bud
• C. Eastern White Pine
• D. Red Maple

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• The science that include the study of both plants
  and animals is
• A. Biology
• B. Botany
• C. Physics
• D. Zoology

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• Spencer has a deciduous ground cover that has 3
  wide and 7 long leaves that grow in a whorled
  pattern. Some leaves are solid dark green and
  some are green with yellowish or white color
  mixed with green. These plants are
• A. Azalea
• B. Hosta
• C. Impatiens
• D. Wax Begonia

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• A large evergreen tree about 50 feet tall with
  scale type leaves and short ½ cones is a
  specimen plant at church. What is the common
  name for this tree that looks similar to a cedar
  tree?
• A. Eastern Red Bud
• B. Leyland Cypress
• C. Pink Oak
• D, Winged Euonymus

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• The lawn at the local library has a large
  deciduous tree about 50 ft tall with leave that
  have five to seven lobes and thee or four bristle
  tips on each lobe that turn brilliant red in the
  autumn. It also has acorns. This tree is a
• A. Pink Oak
• B. Red Maple
• C. River Birch
• D. Weeping Fig

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• The main way to distinguish among the applied
  plant sciences is the
• A. location the plants are grown
• B. purpose for which plants are grown
• C. ration of monocots to dicots
• D. size and color of plants grown

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• On each side of a school parking lot, Glenn
  observed medium-sized deciduous trees that have
  white flowers in spring and reddish purple leaves
  in autumn. They grow in a symmetrical shape with
  little or no pruning. These trees are
• A. Border Forsythia
• B. Bradford Pear
• C. Dwarf Buford Holly
• D. Japanese Acuba

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• Alexis has a large evergreen shrub with
  yellowish-green leaves about 2 to 3 long with
  serrated margins near the leaf tips, It has
  cluster of small waxy-gray berries, This shrub
  is a
• A. Bar Harbor Juniper
• B. Glossy Abelia
• C. Wax Myrtle
• D. Willow Oak

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• Alphonzo has a small deciduous tree with
  heart-shaped leaves, three to five inch long
  brown bean-type pods and pink-purple colored
  flowers depending on the season of the year. It
  is a
• A. Ajuga
• B. Eastern Red Bud
• C. Eastern White Pine
• D. English Ivy

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• The science and practice of growing trees for
  lumber or plywood is
• A. Floriculture
• B. Forestry
• C. Horticulture
• D. Pomology

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• Travis visited his old ball field and found a
  large evergreen shrub with dark green leaves that
  are 3 long and 1 ½ wide with raised veins
  underneath. It has ¼ dark purple berries with a
  hard seed inside. This shrub is
• A. Border Forsythia
• B. Day lily
• C. Japanese Privet
• D. Sprengeri Fern

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• Evan has a dwarf evergreen shrub about two feet
  high and two feet wide with dark green mature
  leaves about ½ to 1 long. New spring growth is
  light green and the stems are a gray color. This
  shrub is a
• A. Bradford Pear
• B. Dwarf Yapon
• C. Japanese Maple
• D. Shore Juniper

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• Robin saw some medium sized deciduous shrubs near
  the school sidewalks. The plants have 1 long
  leaves, small spines at the leaf nodes and ¼ to
  ½ red berries. These shrubs are
• Helleri Holly
• Japanese Barberry
• Pin Oak
• Prayer Plant

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• The applied plant science that studies plants
  grown for food or beautification is
• A. Agronomy
• B. Forestry
• C. Horticulture
• D. Physics

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• Patrick saw medium evergreen shrubs with
  reddish-green 1 long leaves and small clusters
  of groups of bugle-shaped white flowers that are
  1 long. The common name for this plant is
• A. Ajuga
• B. Glossy Abelia
• C. Ivy Leaf Geranium
• D. Japanese Acuba

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• An indoor flowering plant grown for hanging
  baskets and potted plants and has red, white, or
  pink flowers and green leaves that usually have
  long petioles and is popular for Mothers Day is
  a
• A. Boston Fern
• B. Catawba Rhododendron
• C. Geranium
• D. Japanese Flowering Cherry

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• As part of regular biological process a deciduous
  tree
• A. Dies each year in the winter
• B. Drops its functional leaves in the dormant
  season
• C. Keeps its functional leaves in the dormant
  season
• D. Remains green all the year

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• When compared to the amount of oxygen produced in
  the process of photosynthesis, the amount of
  oxygen used in plant respiration is
• A. About the same
• B. Less
• C. More
• D. Much more

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• Gino has noticed that his greenhouse plants have
  small root systems, are taller than normal and
  have larger soft new growth. His problem related
  to watering is
• A. No water
• B. Overwatering
• C. Proper watering
• D. Underwatering

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• Zachery changed lighting in his greenhouse to
  control when his poinsettias will flower. The
  effect that lenth of day has on plant flowering
  is
• A. Absorption
• B. Photoperiodism
• C. Respiration
• D. Thermoperiodism

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• Emily saw outside at the shopping center a medium
  size deciduous tree that had unusually thin brown
  bark peeling off several of its stems or trunks.
  The tree is
• A. Catawba Rhododendron
• B. River Birch
• C. Wax Myrtle
• D. Willow Oak

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• A small deciduous specimen flowering tree that is
  usually crooked and have white flowers that are
  really bracts with a brownish color on the tip of
  each bract is a
• A. Catawba Rhododendron
• B. Flowering Dogwood
• C. Leyland Cypress
• D. Pin Oak

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• Lindsey has some plants at her florist that she
  bought wholesale to sell at Christmas. Most if
  the flowers are dark red, but she also has some
  pink and some white ones. The flowers are
• A. Boston Fern
• B. Fosteria Holly
• C. Poinsettia
• D. Spider Plant

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• At the bad of his lot, Ben observed a large
  deciduous tree about sixty feet tall and fifty
  and forty feet wide that has narrow green leaves
  and small acorns. What is the name of this tree?
• A. Eastern White Pine
• B. Leyland Cypress
• C. Red Maple
• D. Willow Oak

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• At the border of his lot, Ken observed a
  medium-sized deciduous tree with flowers that
  also has 1 to 2 diameter fruit and green, red,
  or purple leaves in the summer. The tree is a
• A. Flowering Crabapple
• B. Mungo Pine
• C. Pin Oak
• D. Willow Oak

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• April has some indoor Christmas plants with
  bracts or leaves that are red, pink, or white on
  different plants. What is the name of those
  plants
• Florist Chrysanthemum
• Geranium
• Poinsettia
• Spider Plant